Word: power
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sessions of the German Reichstag have been few and far between since the Nazis came to power. In the last six years obedient Nazi deputies have been called together only ten times and on each occasion for only one purpose: to act as a sounding board while Führer Adolf Hitler solemnly explains some high Nazi policy to his nation and the world...
Four times the Führer has delivered before the Reichstag, generally on January 30, the anniversary of the Nazis' coming to power, a long, serious "state-of-the-nation" speech. Six extraordinary sessions have been called. On one of those occasions in July 1934, the Führer assembled his legislative yes-men to hear him tell why he had found it necessary to kill off several hundred Nazi Party men the month before. Two years later he thought it mete to explain publicly why he had ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland...
...released. He was first to report the Anglo-Italian Treaty in 1938, first to announce Anthony Eden's resignation last year. So rarely do prophecies turn out right that these triumphs overshadowed notable Augur misses. But in 1932 he observed that Poland would soon achieve a position of power in Europe greater than Italy's; after the first anti-Semitic outbreaks under the Nazis he considered it likely that Hitler would try to make peace with the people he has wronged." He also prophesied that Hitler would drop his demands for colonies in return for a free hand...
...quarreled with Dr. Freud over personal problems and psychoanalytic theory 28 years ago, founded a rival psychoanalytic system. Adolf Hitler, said Dr. Jung, "belongs in the category of the truly mystic medicine man. . . When I have a patient [who believes he is] acting under the command of a higher power [see p. 18], a power within him . . . I dare not tell him to disobey. . . . He won't do it if I do tell him. ... All I can do is attempt . . . to induce the patient to behave in a way less harmful to himself and society. . . . Instinct should tell...
When Lieut. Colonel Busch grabbed power two years ago, grabby Señor Foianini went along, became last year Minister of Mines and Petroleum in Germán Busch's Cabinet. First Busch acts were to cancel wartime censorship, announce his intention to hold elections, introduce civilians to his Cabinet. But the next year press censorship was made more rigorous, extremist agitation was outlawed. In November groups of more than three were forbidden to congregate on the streets of La Paz (pop. 142,547). When dormant political parties recently began to stir restlessly, President Busch enlarged the Senate from...